February 2017 Books

February 2017 Books

Le Flambeau School of Driving

By Peggy Senger Morrison. Unction Press, 2016. 314 pages. $15/paperback; $10/eBook. Rarely have I read a book focused on our…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William Shetter

February 2017 Books

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

By Arlie Russell Hochschild. The New Press, 2016. 315 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $27.99/eBook. One of the most troubling aspects of our…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2017 Books

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Bill Chapman

February 2017 Books

Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Revised and Expanded Edition)

By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 352 pages. $22/paperback; $16.99/eBook. The back cover of Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s book, Spiritual…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Enlarging Our Circle of Love

By Margaret Fisher. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 440), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. A physician, organic gardener, and member of Baltimore…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Making a Portrait of Jesus

By John Lampen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 441), 2016. 33 pages. $7/pamphlet. Many have found their way to the Religious…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

February 2017 Books

Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

By Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka. Fordham University Press, 2016. 256 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. Here is a memoir written in 1960 but…

Reviewed by In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Resolving Difference—in our ways of speaking about God or the ultimate reality

By Rex Ambler. Quaker Universalist Group Pamphlets (number 35), 2016. 28 pages. £2/pamphlet (see qug.org.uk). North American Friends are familiar…

Reviewed by In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Words

By Harvey Gillman. The Friend Publications, 2016. 56 pages. $9/paperback (available from QuakerBooks). British Friend Harvey Gillman deserves to be…

Reviewed by In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

Spiritual Steps on the Road to Success (Revised Edition)

By Linda Seger. Haven Books, 2015. 279 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Friend Linda Seger takes on the ever-relevant questions of personal…

Reviewed by In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

The Journal of George Fox

1831 edition, edited by T.H.S. Wallace. New Foundation Fellowship, 2015. $15 plus shipping/CD-ROM. This CD-ROM is searchable! So you can…

Reviewed by In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

February 2017 Books

New England Wakes and On the Grand Account

By Clint Hull. Self-published, 2015. 283 pages. $14.95/paperback. This volume contains two stories of seventeenth-century New England; the first one…

Reviewed by In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand

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Le Flambeau School of Driving

February 1, 2017

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

February 1, 2017

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers

February 1, 2017